Example sentences of "would make [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal of reluctance in the Industry to produce a version of DOS which is not ‘ backwards-compatible ’ as this would make existing software obsolete at a stroke and users would be reluctant to make such a drastic ( and expensive ) move . |
| 2 | To a Yek accomplished in the ways of the court the whole scheme would make perfect sense however . |
| 3 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 4 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 5 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 6 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 7 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 8 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 9 | There are some situations where the relationship between parent and daughter would make intimate care impossible to give , for example where a daughter had been abused by her father as a child . |
| 10 | The charter would make sure care is appropriate to the patient . |
| 11 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 12 | This increased specificity , in conjunction with smaller pulse generators and non-thoracotomy lead systems , would make prospective evaluation of prophylactic ICD therapy in high-risk post-infarction patients a realistic and practicable proposition . |
| 13 | There are several other wedding anniversaries that would make successful flower pictures — for instance , for the bronze anniversary it would be very interesting to find a coppery frame and some flowers to match . |
| 14 | Likewise , Charlie 's old school is not an entity that has the property of old-school-ness ; this is not a property of which English speakers would make frequent use , but it might be possible employ it in cases where something had the characteristic of " being a school in an old way " — perhaps with extensive use of wax tablet and stylus , and possibly a slave or two for the menial work . |
| 15 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 16 | The object of the League was to create the conditions of international security that would make general disarmament possible . |
| 17 | DMITRY 'S FATHER HAD A GLOBE , and he would point out to Dmitry the different countries and continents , and would make young Dmitry memorise the names of their capital cities . |
| 18 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 19 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 20 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 21 | Corbett sensed he would make little princess if de Craon continued in this vein ; he walked over to where a small , wooden crucifix was nailed to the mast and put his hand on it . |
| 22 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 23 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 24 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 25 | Similarly , in the case of a plant under threat of closure , a strike would make little sense if the company intended moving the stock and machinery elsewhere . |
| 26 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 27 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 28 | Viewed in this way , attempts to delimit pragmatics in the ways explored above would make little sense ; pragmatics would not be a component or level of linguistic theory but a way of looking afresh at the data and methods of linguistics . |
| 29 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
| 30 | Many estate agents were whistling to keep up their confidence this week , claiming that people were already used to the idea of higher mortgage rates and that the latest increase would make little difference . |